How do you avoid being ragebaited?

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UrbanSnake

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Internet nowadays can be a quite stressful place, all social media platforms rewards controversial content, hate speech, extremism and disrespect as a whole.

If you participate in a community or group, you are probably exposed to predatory algorithms showing you the exact opposite of your belief, opinions, ideas and thoughts. Comment sections can be a very toxic environment as well.

In this scenario, how do you avoid being ragebaited?
 
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UrbanSnake said:
Internet nowadays can be a quite stressful place, all social media platforms rewards controversial content, hate speech, extremism and disrespect as a whole.

If you participate in a community or group, you are probably exposed to predatory algorithms showing you the exact opposite of your belief, opinions, ideas and thoughts. Comment sections can be a very toxic environment as well.

In this scenario, how do you avoid being ragebaited?
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Avoiding almost all social media and not following complete dipshits has worked wonders for me.

Highly recommend it, especially as a dipshit myself.
 
SettingSun77 said:
Avoiding almost all social media and not following complete dipshits has worked wonders for me.

Highly recommend it, especially as a dipshit myself.
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Would the answer be isolating from other people online in general? Or is there a specific kind of place to have meaningful and respectful conversations like we have on BHW
 
UrbanSnake said:
Would the answer be isolating from other people online in general? Or is there a specific kind of place to have meaningful and respectful conversations like we have on BHW
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It really depends on your world view, I think. I wouldn't hang out on Twitter, for instance, because it's mostly populated by people who I wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with.

I don't think it's impossible to spend time on social media surrounded by people you're only likely to agree with, although some would term that an echo chamber. But it's also extremely hard work, especially on the larger platforms. I mostly just hang around places with a smaller user base where you're less likely to encounter a dickhead.
 
Arguing on the internet is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how well you play, the bird is going to crap all over everything and strut around like it won anyway.
 
honestly once you start working in marketing and see how the sausage is made, ragebait completely loses its power. you stop getting mad and just see some guy trying to pump his impressions for ad revenue or push a crappy affiliate link. when you view every toxic post as just another cheap engagement funnel, it actually becomes kinda funny. you just gotta train yourself to see the mechanics behind it and scroll past.
 
I just remind myself that a lot of those posts are designed to get a reaction. If something feels like obvious ragebait, I don't reply and move on. It's a much better use of time than arguing with strangers online.
 
To avoid being ragebaited you simply become the ragebaiter yourself and bask in the flamewars in the comments.
 
Don't personalize attacks. More often than not, what they reveal says more about them than about you.
 
My twitter feed used to be full of hate, politics, people doing bad things, people complain about how bad things are done to them, then few of the accounts keep coming again and again. First i started using "not interested in this post" and after that i started blocking those accounts and let me tell you my twitter feed is best place now which i enjoy reading,

I think its about training the algorithm to work for you.
 
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